What IT needs to know about cloud economics: applications

As noted in the first article in this series, economics is a common language that can help IT defend its interests and values. It can also help technical teams clarify choices, such as whether public or private cloud resources are more costly, and at what point.

But when it comes to deciding whether to operate in the cloud, what type of cloud to use and how to manage your applications, it helps to get more granular. In practice, cloud economics is driven by application types, workloads, and related operations.